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I thought It Was Breast Cancer

by Eliza on March 5th, 2008

With only weeks before my husband was due to deploy we traveled across country to find a house for our eleven month old and myself. I was a new mom, not sure of everything in the mommy land but I was loving life and even life on the road. (our trip itself was long) We stopped every time our son cried, checking his diaper, loving him and even feeding him. But I couldn’t get in the overcrowded backseat to sit by him, he was constantly crying as he wanted to be able to see us but couldn’t.

Course every bit of crying meant I leaked a bit more, my shirt was soaked and I ached. It took a couple of days to get to where we needed to be, which of course we stopped at hotels and he ate all night long. He was the type of breastfed baby that ate off and on all day, it was more like quick bursts or snacks, this was also the way he slept. When we pulled in to my grandparents house we were finally there, all we needed was to find a home, in the meantime I would rest and she would play with her great grandson.

Little did I know I was getting sick and when I finally realized it I blamed it on the cold, stating that we just moved from the desert my body was probably just hot. It wasn’t, I got even more sick and I hurt every time my son touched my chest. My husband and grandmother tried telling me I had a fever but I thought it was just them worrying as I was naturally hot.

The next feeding, yes even though it hurt so much, I noticed I looked a bit off. My breasts were lumpy and just didn’t look right. I began to feel them and felt the lumps, thinking back I remember the doctor telling me I should give myself breast exams and feel for lumps, this immediately threw up a red flag. I had cancer. I told my husband which in turn pulled out our tricare folder and told me to call a number, thank goodness the on call nurse had been in my position and walked me through it. I did not have breast cancer, I had mastitis and I’d need some medication to get over it. If it didn’t work within two weeks I had to go right in to the hospital. It worked, but boy did it hurt.

So there ya have it, that’s how I thought I had breast cancer. (I’ll be posting some facts on mastistis later today)

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